Facebook has announced yet another group-calling app called CatchUp. The new app by Facebook is an audio-calling app that lets you add up to eight people in a single call.
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Facebook has announced yet another group-calling app called CatchUp.
The new app by Facebook is an audio-calling app that lets you add up to eight people in a single call
Catchup by Facebook is being touted as a rival to Apple’s FaceTime audio calling feature
Facebook has announced yet another group-calling app called CatchUp. The new app by Facebook is an audio-calling app that lets you add up to eight people in a single call. Catchup by Facebook is being touted as a rival to Apple’s Face-time audio calling feature but unlike FaceTime, the app can only be used for making audio calls. The app is being developed by Facebook NPE.
Facebook claims that the app lets users set their statuses to “ready to talk” and “offline”. “Keeping in touch with friends and family is important, especially during this time of physical distancing. Messaging and video calls are great ways to send a quick update or connect with someone face-to-face, but speaking to someone over the phone offers a unique balance of both convenience and personal connection. Based on our studies, we found that one of the main reasons people don’t call friends and family more frequently is that they don’t know when they are available to talk or are worried they may reach them at an inconvenient time. CatchUp addresses this problem, and even makes group calling as easy as one tap, ” Facebook said in a blogpost.
For using Catchup, you don’t need to have an account on Facebook. It will derive your connections from your phone’s contact list, the permission to access the contact list has to be given first.
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Facebook CatchUp audio-only calling app to be available on Android and iOS soon. Here's everything you need to know.
Facebook CatchUp to be available on Android, iOS soon.
With the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, we are staying connected with our friends and colleagues via video calls and phone calls. This has led to the surge of Zoom calls and also forcing Facebook to introduce something like Messenger Rooms. Now, the company’s experimentation team has launched the “CatchUp” app.
According to a report by TechCrunch, Facebook CatchUp brings support for audio calls with up to eight other people. With this, the company is basically challenging Face-time Audio as well as WhatsApp calls.
In order to set itself apart, CatchUp also brings a few exclusive features on board. These features include the status option, which can be set as “Ready to Talk” or offline. The report also suggests that in order to use the app, the users will not need to login to a Facebook account.
CatchUp really has to do something really impressive in order to stand out of the crowd. As of now, the biggest advantage of having CatchUp is that users will not need any login credentials to setup the application. Also, the app brings a feature that flags when users are available to take calls.
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